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the magical year

by Danu Forest Winter is here, and with it the sun sinks to its lowest arc upon the horizon upon the winter solstice. This year the winter solstice falls on the 21st of December. Solstice means ‘solar standstill’ and this is when the sun appears to rise and set in...

Danu Forest on the traditional Celtic festival of Lughnasadh that is marked on August 1st. As July turns to August, summer takes on a lazier, richer air, as natures abundance overflows along the hedgerows and in the fields, the gardens and the farms. The first berries, strawberries raspberries and blackcurrants...